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could also be a variant name of Ujjayini like Visala in the Meghaduta45 of Kalidasa. According to Dr. K C. Jain:46 "Malva was one of the most important provinces of India in ancient times, and its influence of Indian culture has been profound. Physically, culturally and politically, we from the passage way may call it the Heart of India'. It is North India to the Deccan. Malwa implies the plateau region which formed a political unit like Magadha, Kalinga and Saurastra. In the name of Avanti but Sixth Century B.C. it became famous under the from the fifth century onwards it was largely called 'MALVA". Hence Sudraka King of Sobhavati referred to by Gunadhya a Junior contemporary of Canakya (4th Century B. C.) and Candragupta having Viravara come to him from Malava can easily make it convenient for us to constiue him as a King of Kalinga or Karnataka as postulated by Dr. A.D. Pusalkar. But Viravara could also come from the contiguous Malva regions of Saurastra.
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Sobhavati therefore construed as Ujjayiñ in Avanti subsequently construed as the Capital of Sūdraka having close contact with this country completes his author ship of the Mrcchakatika in line with the authors Bhasa and Saumilla, of Pratijñayaugnadharayana, Svapnavasavadattam and Vinavāsavadattam.
But a study of Avimäraka makes it equally cognisable that Bhasa was fairly acquainted with the kingdom of Sauvira47 (Multan and Jaharwar) contiguous to Sindhu and the town named Vairantya -Rintambur or Rintipur on the Gomti a branch of the Chambal (Roruka was the Capital of Sauvira). Sauvira could be contiguous to 'Sakale' the town proper of the Madra country where "Surya Prabha" reigned as the sovereign lord of Bhasa, Prabhasa, Siddhartha and Prahasta.
Bhasa and Südraka (Kavi Putra or Kavi having a putra) along with Saumillaku could have been residents of Ujjayint originally but serving in their professional careers as ministers the kings in different contiguous areas such as Kalinga, Karnataka they could have a better reckoning of the incidents occuring beyond the pale of their existence such as Avanti Sauvira and Sakala,
Hence Bhasa could have enjoyed the patronage of the Sakala King in the Madra country named Süryaprabha, son of Candraprabha and grand son of Angaraprabha who could have been the rajas who were a corporation of warriors originally hailing from the ancient Ksatriya tribes of vedic times la 325 BC Alexander brought them under sway.49 Kaviputra'
